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Why Functional Resumes Should Be Avoided
If you are about to create your resume, you may have searched through the thousands of templates that are available and realized that there are two distinct types of resume formats. They are the chronological resume (which is most widely used) and the functional resume. Functional resumes summarize your successes at the top in a bulleted list and then follow it with a brief work history. Continue reading
